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The human tendency to turn away from mass suffering is well documented.
Joseph Stalin is reputed to have said that "the death of one person is a tragedy; the death of one million is a statistic." (117 billion and more to come)
Calculating the answer to the question “How many people have ever lived on Earth?” is complicated. “modern” Homo sapiens (that is, people who were roughly like we are now) were thought to have first walked the Earth around 50,000 B.C.E. Discoveries now suggest modern Homo sapiens existed much earlier, around 200,000 B.C.E. This major change in our understanding of human existence spurred new calculations and consultations with experts, resulting in an estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth.
prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth
Creating new life is creating new death. More meat for the machine. In your lust you must recycle star dust.
In a world where people go around saying things like, "every life is precious" and "all people are equal," why do we react with such apparently unequal preciousness? If we take seriously the idea that every life is of equal value, we'd expect to feel twice the sympathy for two victims as for one; and we'd feel a hundred thousand times as much for a hundred thousand victims. And yet, we do the opposite.
Recent studies that Daryl Cameron and I conducted shed light on why this might happen. We found evidence that as the number of victims goes up, so does the motivation to squelch our feelings of sympathy. In other words, when people see multiple victims, they turn the volume down on their emotions for fear of being overwhelmed.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-autopilot/201003/why-is-the-death-one-million-statistic
The human tendency to turn away from mass suffering is well documented.
Joseph Stalin is reputed to have said that "the death of one person is a tragedy; the death of one million is a statistic." (117 billion and more to come)
Calculating the answer to the question “How many people have ever lived on Earth?” is complicated. “modern” Homo sapiens (that is, people who were roughly like we are now) were thought to have first walked the Earth around 50,000 B.C.E. Discoveries now suggest modern Homo sapiens existed much earlier, around 200,000 B.C.E. This major change in our understanding of human existence spurred new calculations and consultations with experts, resulting in an estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth.
prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth
Creating new life is creating new death. More meat for the machine. In your lust you must recycle star dust.
In a world where people go around saying things like, "every life is precious" and "all people are equal," why do we react with such apparently unequal preciousness? If we take seriously the idea that every life is of equal value, we'd expect to feel twice the sympathy for two victims as for one; and we'd feel a hundred thousand times as much for a hundred thousand victims. And yet, we do the opposite.
Recent studies that Daryl Cameron and I conducted shed light on why this might happen. We found evidence that as the number of victims goes up, so does the motivation to squelch our feelings of sympathy. In other words, when people see multiple victims, they turn the volume down on their emotions for fear of being overwhelmed.
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/life-autopilot/201003/why-is-the-death-one-million-statistic
